Jean de La Fontaine
Author
Publisher
Versant Sud Jeunesse
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
Description
Certaines fables de Jean de La Fontaine ont une origine ancienne. L'écrivain s'est inspiré de plusieurs répertoires, dont celui des contes arabes de Kalila et Dimna. Nous vous invitons dans un voyage de près de 2000 ans qui vous fera voir les Fables sous un jour nouveau, accompagnées de délicates miniatures ayant illustré les récits qui sont à leur source.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Fables of La Fontaine / translated from the French by Elizur Wright, with notes by J. W. M. Gibbs
"Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at
...Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV’s young son, his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic works in French. His versions of stories such as The Hare and the Tortoise and The Wolf and the Lamb are witty and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is always unpredictable. The behavior of both animals and humans is usually centered on deception...
